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May 29th- Slight Risk
(Aitkin, Mille Lacs, Kanabec counties, Minnesota)
Headed up towards Milaca around 2 in the afternoon. When my
mom and i got around Milaca, we heard severe storms heading towards Lake Milleacs. We got to Isle, MN,
and waited for about 20 minutes for the storm to get to us. Watched a pretty big but fairly unorganized shelf cloud pass over
the lake. Storm ended up about a mile or two north of us, but got some pics of the shelf cloud. Headed back home with hopes
of catching the storm that came out of St Cloud, but when we got on I-35, the storm was well off to the east. Overall, didn't
see any severe weather, but a pretty cool shelf cloud, a little mammatus, and a nice structure of the storm from St Cloud. Total miles: 203.
July 24th- Slight Risk
(Anoka, Hennepin, and Ramsey counties, MN)
Not really much of a chase as I only had to drive a few miles from home to get some pics but either
way some nice structure on a storm that produced golf ball size hail in downtown Minneapolis and at the University of Minnesota.
I didn't actually see any hail, but with that size, I'm kinda glad I didn't. A few pics:
August 5th- Moderate Risk
(Richland County, North Dakota; Brown County, South Dakota)
Rich Gudmenson and I headed up I-94 towards the Fargo area around 10:30. Stop just east of
Fargo around 1:45 to grab some gas. Storms were firing early off of a pre frontal boundary. We catch a well defined and classic
looking wall cloud just south of Fargo and watch the storm for about 20 minutes. It showed some slight rotation but was dying
at the same time. We decide to head down I-29 towards eastern South Dakota and get in to position at about 3:00 waiting for
iniation of the forecasted storms. We watch a few storms go up but then die about 10 minutes after they start. However, one
cell west of Aberdeen, South Dakota caught our eye. We take off west to try to intercept it and while we are driving, the
storm starts taking on supercellular radar characteristics (I have seen other pictures of that same storm, about the time
I noticed it looked supercellular, the base of the storm started looking like a mothership). While we are trying to chase
this cell, another monster storm fires right over the area where we had been just a couple hours before, however the dynamics
looked better in South Dakota, so we decided to stick it out and chase the Aberdeen storm. Once we get about 15 miles away
from it, it starts collapsing completely and once we were about 10 miles away there was hardly even a precip area. After realizing
this storm wasnt going to rebuild we headed back towards Fargo in an attempt to salvage anything we could from this storm.
We figured we could atleast get some decent lightning shots, but by the time we finally reached the storm around midnight
it did the exact same thing the previous storm did, and vanished in to thin air. All in all not a bad chase, one storm w/
wall cloud, 2 storms with nice structures, and about 700 miles.
August 12th- Slight Risk
(Eastern North Dakota)
BUST! Too little cap lead to too much small convection which means
we dont have sufficient instibility for supercells. However, we did get on a severe warned line just outside of Fargo
and while we were under the base we saw some crazy scud action. It wasn't
really worth it to take out the camera so I didnt get any pics from this chase.
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